Pape

This is a suit in equity, brought by Elsie Wilson Pape, guardian ad litem, under the Aet of August 15,1894 ( 28 Stat. 305 , as amended, 31 Stat. 760 [Comp. St. § 4214]), to secure allotments of Indian lands for her children.

Elsie Wilson Pape, formerly Elsie Hawk, appellant, was a full-blood Indian, bom in 1889 at Bay Center, an Indian village on Shoalwater Bay, Washington, where she resided until 1915. In July, 1903, she married Clarence Wilson, a white man, by whom she had three children (plaintiffs in this suit), Ernest C., Dorothy J., and Pearl A. Wilson. In 1908 or 1909 Elsie was recorded as a Quin-aielt Indian allottee. -Prior to her allotment she had never lived on the reservation. In 1914 Elsie married Clyde Pape, a white man, at South Bend, Wash., and shortly thereafter they moved to Tacoma. In June, 1915, she and her husband moved to the Quinaielt reservation, where, with the consent of the Indian agent, they built a house and lived, and Elsie was given a fishing location on the Quinaielt river within the reservation. About March, 1916, they moved to Montana, but in 1917 returned to Bay Center, where they remained until the spring of 1918, when they moved to Tacoma,…